Originally Posted by
tkelvin69
My experience is you get the benefits of the FF program you are flying under. I don’t like it as it’s an “alliance” and if I am OWE that should cover everyone. It’s become an alliance where you can earn and spend miles but not use benefits.
There are a number of airlines that treat their ownmembers differently from the way that they treat those who are omembers of other alliance partners. For example, AA allows admittance into Admirals Clubs to elite status members of other programs, but not to AAdvantage elite members. It's not uncommon.